The HOT List for 10/1

Honestly, almost on a daily basis we see some fab new handbag we want. But with the prohibitively high price tags and our comparatively not as large bank accounts . . . well, you get where we're going. Which is why we fell in love with Bag Borrow or Steal, a fantastic Website that lets you rent(!!) all the hottest, trendiest new purses! They have Gucci, Kooba, Yves Saint Laurent, Fendi, Chanel, BCBG, Prada, Burberry, Coach, Louis Vuitton and Kate Spade, among many others, and dozens of styles and colors available from each of the designers! How it works: You buy a membership to the site, and then you're able to rent individual bags by the week, month . . . for however long you desire. They mail you the bag, you take extra special care of it, and then send it back when you're ready to try another! The Website also offers gift certificates, which means it's a fab present to give OR receive (it is almost time to make those holiday wish lists!).

#2: Become a (virtual) Hollywood star with theMOTORAZR2 Cell Phone with the Surviving Hollywood Mobile Phone Game from Vivendi Games Mobile

Think you can make it big in Hollywood? Have dreams of being the next celeb superstar? Try your best – and without actually moving to LaLaLand – with Vivendi Games Mobile's HOT new game Surviving Hollywood! The game takes place across 29 days, in which you have to get acting experience, make sure your bod is in healthy form, and perfect a style that will translate into great headshots, so you can land an agent. The fun game automatically saves at the end of each game play, so you can check in throughout the day for a few minutes at a time, or log some seriously longer sessions to pave your way towards superstardom! Fun, fun, fun! Our friends at Vivendi Games Mobile have been extra generous for you, our beloved readers, loading up two sweet cell phones with Surviving Hollywood and giving them to us to pass along to two VERY LUCKY WINNERS! Enter now in our WIN section!

Feel like you're getting a bit too old to go out trick-or-treating in the neighborhood? Well, we'd argue that you're never too old for candy, but the good news is that when you leave Winnie the Pooh costumes behind, you're now old enough for more mature Halloween pleasures, like Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights! At both the Hollywood and Orlando Universal Studios parks though the end of October, you can go through four super scray mazes, meet up with big-screen horror legends Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jason from Friday the 13th and Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, ride the Terror Tram and tour the studio's scariest movie sets! There are also super scary shows, and every night, guests are filmed enjoying the terrifying experience, with the videotape going up on the Halloween Horror Nights Website. You could be a star! And what a great excuse for talking the 'rents into a little family vacay to Los Angeles or Orlando, right?

This is one of the coolest freebie sites we've ever seen! All you do is locate the type of cell phone you have, click on it, and up pops a list of free headsets you can order, all free! All you have to pay for is shipping, which is less than $4! They're great, quality headsets, all in new condition, and most styles and brands of cell phones are represented, with hundreds of different types of headsets available. WOW! So, you might be asking, how can anyone afford to give away all these gadget-y goodies for free? It's not a scam. The site was recently featured on The Rachael Ray Show, and the deal is that the headsets are given out as a way to promote hands-free driving. So many people talk on their cells (and even try to text message while driving!) that it's become a safety hazard, so the good folks at Freeheadset.org are handing out the free gear to in the hopes that drivers will not continue this potentially life-threatening habit. Told ya it was a cool site!

We have to say, it makes a lot more sense to have a show called Friday Night Lights actually AIR on Friday nights, doncha think? So if you're going to be out enjoying your own high school football team, don't forget to set the TiVo for FNL, which kicks off its second season with an episode that finds Coach Taylor's family realizing how difficult it is to live apart while his wife is preggers and he's off coaching the TMU college team. Teen daughter Julie also isn't thrilled with the family's long-distance arrangement, and the Panthers team isn't happy with Coach Taylor's replacement as the high school's new football coach. Hmmm . . . maybe that means we can expect Coach Taylor to make a return to Dillon High soon?

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#6: Meet the new TV season's most adorkable new guys!Aliens in America (Oct. 8, 8:30PM, CW)

Don't let the title fool ya. There are no E.T.s or little green martians running around in this sweet and funny new CW sitcom. Instead, the "alien" refers to foreign exchange student Raja, who goes to live with an American family. 16-year-old nerd Justin has never fit in at school, and he leads a pretty lonely life. Until Raja shows up, that is. Suddenly, outcast Justin has a friend, the first real friend of his life, and though he and Raja are now both outcasts, at least Justin doesn't have to suffer in humiliation by himself. Of course, there are lots of laughs to be had while Justin and Raja attempt to make headway with the supposed cool kids, but it's the sweetness of their friendship that'll hook you on the show.

#7: Score a touchdown with thePeyton Manning Pro Grip Football by Nerf

Being pummeled by a bunch of helmet-wearing guys seems like the least fun part of football to us. But we do love throwing the football around – great exercise! – and this cool new Nerf football is a great new piece of sports equipment to stash in your bag and take a trip to the park. Toss it around with your sib, your best pal, your 'rents . . . even your dog! The nifty easy-grip feature makes it easier to perfect your throwing arm, and, well, if you happen to be on the receiving end of the ball and it hits you on the noggin' instead of landing in your hands – no worries, it's Nerf!

McDreamy, McSteamy . . . If our doctors looked like this, maybe we wouldn't mind making appointments! Alas, they don't, which is probably part of the fun of watching this impossibly attractive cast live, love, fight, break up, make up and, along the way, save a lot of lives. Season three allowed us to delve even deeper into the characters' pasts, and has set up a fourth season – which just began on ABC! – in which the doctors will laugh a little more, angst out a little less. Every episode from season three is included on this seven-disc box set, along with bonus goodies like audio commentaries, deleted scenes, a featurette with yummy star Patrick "Dr. McDreamy" Dempsey as he drives race cars and the stars' favorite scenes!

#9: Meet the coolest new family on the CW theLife Is Wild brood. (Oct. 7, 8PM, CW)

The Camdens of 7th Heaven they aren't, but there's still a lot to love about the Clarkes, a family of New Yorkers who pack up and move to an animal reserve/resort in South Africa. Dad Danny's a veterinarian, and he and his wife are worried that their kids – some his from a previous marriage, some hers from a previous marriage (how Brady Bunch, right?) – are growing apart while living in the city. So when Danny has the chance to move the fam to South Africa and help his former father-in-law revive his resort, he jumps at the chance. There's much drama ahead, lots of cute boys, some sweet family bonding, and lots of gorgeous scenery and spectacular animal shots - the series is filmed on location in South Africa, which makes for a parade of cool cameos by lions, giraffes, elephants and even a warthog!

#10: Get all virtual with My Sims for Wii and Nintendo DS (Electronic Arts)

If you're a fan of the Sims games, this newest edition just might quickly become your new fave. Unlike past games that were more about helping your Sims people survive, My Sims focuses on helping them THRIVE, as in building good lives for them and their fellow townsfolk. You move into town, meet the local mayor, get a tour of the area, then select the kind of house you want to build. It's up to you to trick it out, and then to invite new people to move into town, all in the name of making it a better place to live for you and your community . . . what a cool idea in a videogame, right? The graphics are, the sounds are sweet, and there are, as always, fun minigames to play, like Sushi Chef's sushi-making game, DJ Candy's room designing and the Create-A-Thing minigame. Fun, fun, fun (and more than a little addictive!)!